HIGHER RAILWAY RATES
DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
(Prom Our Own Correspondent.) c . ' . WJ£L«EJNGTON, August 12. femce the impending increase in tho railway tariff was first announced considerable anxiety to know what the rates will be and when they may bo expected to come into operation has been manifested in Parliament.
_Mr G. W. Forbes (Hurunui) asked the Piime Minister this afternoon when the " ri i t » es were liko 'y to commence Mr Massey said that the department was i on e ™ atter - He did not think that the new tariff would commence to operate next Monday as he had expected, but Probably the Monday after. Ho could not speak but ho thought so. Mr A. S. Malcolm (Clutha) then a&ked if the department had consulted ftho commercial and farming interests in regard to the n< t? rates, and if not, would tho Minister lr.—Tuct it to do so.
Mr Massoy sajd that no injury would bo done to any class of the community by reason of the new rates. He would endeavour to havo all classes treated fairly and
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18013, 13 August 1920, Page 5
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